Curious George"King Doggie/The Lucky Cap"
A Princess mistakes Hundley for a Royal Doggie. George's misfortunes turn when he gets a new hat.G

2:30 pm

Martha Speaks"Return Of The Bookbots: The Case Of The Missing Words, Part One & Two"
Return of the Bookbots: The Case of the Missing Words, Part One - The Bookbots are back and faced with a new nemesis: The Announcer. Armed with the power to bring nouns from books to life, the Announcer is wreaking havoc on Wagstaff City. Can our heroes utilize their semantic savvy to stifle this rampaging rapscallion? Vocabulary: (E) noun, remove, term, insert, announce(r). D

WordGirl"Becky and the Bard/Monkey Robot Showdown"
Becky and the Bard - Violet and Becky compete for the coveted role of Juliet to play opposite the dreamy Hunter Throbheart in Romeo & Juliet. Violet is cast as Juliet while Becky is the understudy. When the Energy Monster captures Violet, Becky must chose between the role of a lifetime and saving her friend. D

4:00 pm

Wild Kratts"The Gecko Effect"
There's a mystery to be solved, as the Wild Kratts team wonders how a Gecko lizard climbs up smooth surfaces and can even climb upside down. The gang uses their Miniaturizer to shrink down and discover it's all about physics: all objects have electrical charges that attract one another and the gecko's marvelous toe pad structure charges so much that they can walk on surfaces as smooth as glass. But in the meantime Zach has stolen their Miniaturizer and now imprisons them in a glass terrarium. D

4:30 pm

Cyberchase"A Battle of Equals"
Hacker pollutes cyberspace with dangerous cyberstatic by tampering with four satellites designed to keep everything free from cyber- static cling. But is his plan only to trash cyberspace - or does he have something even more devious up his cloak? The kids learn the answer as they use balance scales and equations to restore the satellites and save Motherboard. The Big Idea: You can use an equation - a statement that two different expressions are equal to each other - to find unknown values that make the equation true. D

5:00 pm

Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman"Ruff Pigs Out and Has A Whale of a Time"
Ruff's cameradog, Tank, is not the most reliable employee in the world, and Ruff is looking for his replacement. Meanwhile, Blossom informs him that pigs are actually smarter than dogs. Ruff sends Bethany and Brian out to prove Blossom wrong; and Sterling and Liza go to SeaWorld to see if Shamu could make a good replacement for Tank. D

5:30 pm

Nightly Business Report
President Obama says he's open to new ideas on raising government revenues, but eliminating tax deductions for the rich doesn't go far enough. NBR's Darren Gersh has the latest from Washington. There are increasing worries about the underlying strength of the consumer after retail sales slide more than expected in October. D

Nature"An Original DUCKumentary"
This program follows a wood duck family as a male and female create a bond, migrate together across thousands of miles, nurture and protect a brood of chicks, then come full circle as they head to their wintering grounds.G

8:00 pm

NOVA"Ultimate Mars Challenge"
To achieve its successful landing on Mars with its precious load of instruments, the rover Curiosity first had to parachute through the Martian atmosphere at twice the speed of sound, then be gently lowered to the planet's surface by "sky crane" - a first-of-its-kind system. NOVA joins the scientists and engineers responsible for Curiosity's on-the-ground experiments, and is there for the exhilarating moments after the successful landing.G

9:00 pm

NOVA scienceNOW"What Will The Future Be Like?"
Host David Pogue makes some predictions about which technologies will transform daily life within the next several years, based on advancements already taking shape in laboratories around the world. Gadgets that once were purely science fiction are on the verge of becoming as common as the smart phones Pogue reviews today.G

10:00 pm

Hustle"Silent Witness"
Mickey and his team have a wealth of potential marks lined up but when Eddie's niece gets scammed by ruthless modeling agent Wendy Stanton, the ultimate ice-queen, everything goes on hold. Team members need an ambitious plan - modeling shoots, lifestyle coaches and a meeting at the American embassy begin to take shape.G